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Stretch
Story of Elmer Gentry
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop

Track Listings (36) - Disc #1
1. Why Did You Do It
2. Miss Jones
3. Tomorrows Another Day
4. Down Home
5. Write Me A Note
6. Buzz Fly
7. Fixin To Die
8. If The Cap Fits
9. The Way Life Is
10. Thats The Way The Wind Blows
11. Hold Up The Light
12. Hold On
13. Put Your Hands Up
14. Loves Got A Hold On Me
15. End Up Crying
16. Knives In Their Backs
17. Rock N Roll Hoochie Coo
18. Show Biz Blues
19. You Cant Beat Your Brain For Enterainment
20. Jonah And The Whale
21. Living On The Highway
22. Take You Down
23. Lets Spend The Night Together
24. Cant Judge A Book
25. Living On The Highway
26. Showbiz Blues
27. Rock N Roll Hoochie Coo
28. So Many Faces
29. You Bet You Have
30. Re-Arranging
31. Forget The Past
32. Aint Got No Reason
33. Take Me Away
34. Youre Too Late
35. School Days
36. Fooling Me

CD Details

All Artists: Stretch
Title: Story of Elmer Gentry
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Repertoire
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 11/18/2002
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop
Style: Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 4009910460221

Synopsis

Album Description

Reissued 1996 compilation. Stretch was one of the most popular bands of the mid 70's. 'Why Did You Do It', s 16 hit in the UK in 1975 and a popular disco favorite, represented only one facet of the Stretch sound. Rock 'N' Roll and down home blues 'n' boogie, played with a driving passion, were at the heart of their richly satisfying music. Elmer Gantry's soundful vocals complemented the attacking guitar of Grahem 'Kirby' Gregory on a 2CD set.

CD Reviews

Ballsy boogie by band cursed by bad fortune

Dick Destiny (crypt@sun.soci.niu.ed | southern California | 08/22/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Stretch was a mid-70's heavy boogie outfit remembered mostly for including members who wound up in the much vilified bogus Fleetwood Mac that toured the US in 1973 before being exposed as charlatans. This is a shame because the reputation got Stretch effectively shunned in America. This box set is an omnibus culled from Stretch's four UK releases. It kicks off with the band's only European hit, "Why Did You Do It," a funky musical retelling of the bogus-Mac debacle from their side.From there, the set gets down to business of presenting progressively heavier blues rock and boogie led by singer "Elmer Gantry" and guitarist "Kirby." The first nine selections from CD2 are 40-minutes of stoked Marshall stack mayhem punctuated by a version of "Rock 'N' Roll Hootchie Koo" that burns Johnny Winter And's version of the same. "Tommorrow's Another Day," from Stretch's first LP, "Elastique," also joins the ranks of shoulda-been-a-contendah among unheard rock anthems. Stretch is the living example of the dictum "protect your reputation at all costs or it will haunt you later." Too bad about that Fleetwood Mac business. You shoulda bailed after the first arena date, guys. The Box set comes with a 50-page booklet describing the sad but interestingly pathetic story of the band as seen through the eyes of "Elmer Gantry," it's fiery blues shouter. The music indicates Stretch must have been an awesomely powerful live act. Definitely something for aficianados of lost-in-the-70's brutish hard rock."